#i dare say even with respect!

[noahmullariii]

the way Percy's friend group is literally -

4 monsters:

half-goat who's technically twice his age

one-eyed brother who's technically half his age

surprisingly lovely giant dog from hell

strangely devoted flying horse who can talk

and an odd assortment of people:

his mama

immortal lesbian who was a tree for a few years

scary buff girl who bullied him a little

autistic kid who radiates death and had a crush on him

nicest demigod ever whom he had a crush on before he... died

allegedly normal girl who now randomly tells the future

autistic girl who tried her absolute hardest to hate him then promptly fell in love with him. now they're soulmates

goddess of hearth

#pjo #percy jackson #grover underwood #tyson pjo #mrs o'leary #blackjack pjo #sally jackson #thalia grace #clarisse la rue #nico di angelo #charles beckendorf #rachel elizabeth dare #annabeth chase #hestia #yes hestia is bestie material #he also has silena stolls and butch but #they aren't really besties #tho butch probably would join the club during hoo #as you can see hoo is irrelevant for this post #but if it wasn't i'd say the list would grow by only 5 people #in order of strength of their respective bonds with percy forged over the course of my hoo rewrite: leo piper reyna hazel frank #cuz for me frank and hazel are annie's besties first; percy's second #reyna's like in a weird limbo - she'd know annabeth first but bond with percy quite a lot as well; even separated by quest #percy leo piper chaos trio where??? #in my head ofc #anyway i guess i'll tag it too then #pjo hoo #hoo

[maegalkarven]

"Durge came back different", "Durge didn't really come back", "the person who Durge originally was is dead" are all good takes, but what if.

If Durge came back exactly as they were? The brain damage, additional trauma and memory loss are the big altering factors, but underneath that it's still them.

They didn't change drastically, their former self is not dead.

How about one single fragile mortal soul still keeping a hold on itself, how about Durge who was never allowed anything for themselves still retaining them.

How about Durge who has lost everything: power, memories, purpose, sense of self, still being themselves, despite it all.

How about not even Orin's daggers, tadpole and Bhaal combined being able to rob them of their core? How about all of that just revealed who Durge has always been underneath all those expectations Father dearest put on them?

How about: "After all this time, it's still you."

#the dark urge #durge #dark urge #listen all these dead past selfs and loose of identity is fine and all #but i personally can't stand it because give me “me” back #give me who I am #i don't want redemption fuck your clean slate #give me the only thing I could ever dare claim as my own. return myself to me #@withers maybe SOME losers would lose their mind seeing the attocities Durge has commited. Levi is better tho. give him all of his memories #and give them NOW #levi is not a different person #not even june is a different person #it's still them how they have always been at their core #it's not regression it's not stagnation it's growing and changing #but staying yourself #levi SO recovers all of his memories #fuck what some old dude with bad hiring skills says his memories aren't lost. nothing ever truly is #june accidentially gets curses with having his memories back #maybe don't piss off powerful entities bby #levi be like: i respect all loss of identity. but I PERSONALLY hate to lose. give me myself back

[jasontoddenthusiastt]

The New Titans #55 (1989)

Batman (2010-) #641

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Red Hood and the Outlaws (2016-) #6

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Batman and Red Hood (2011-) #20

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Batman (2016-) #138

They sure do bAT&Tman. They sure as hell do.

Yet Jason never thought this way about you.

#Don’t you dare kill them with a simple headshot Jason! I have to keep them alive so I can torment them until they wished they were dead #they’ll never use their hands again. this is the superior way #and you should follow in my footsteps as any self-respecting non-criminal vigilante would in order to keep your conscience squeaky clean #also how dare you not be more understanding of the fact that I completely betrayed your trust #and threw your unhealable trauma in your face and shamelessly admitted to it #after I slit your throat in front of the murderer responsible for that same trauma while he laughed in your face a few years back #god you are a terrible son u are so selfish everything I ever said about you while u were dead was true ur being such a burden rn #also I just love how in batman 640 Bruce was going around interrogating Ollie and Clark (ppl who died + came back) #to find a *~rational~* explanation for how Jason was even here #instead of yk. just being glad your child is alive #and when Damian died he does all this shit to Jason to figure *how to* bring Dami back #after he burned his artwork the same way he emptied out Jason’s room #god you flaming turd of a father never change #the fact that lobdell boiled down Jason’s reasoning to ‘he’s the bad guy and you’re the good guy Jason’ #already shows we’re starting off on the wrong foot but #Jason coming back to Bruce in every new comic and saying the same ‘I tried it your way. or sucks’ thing is so silly because #it* #he already learned that decades ago #all the way back in batman 424 lol #you’re just. making him. look like an idiot. but yk what maybe that’s still better than the self-deprecating diversion bs #that’s actually convincing more people ‘yay Jason want redemption this is revolutionary & has definitely never been done a billion times b4 #and is a step in the *right* direction’ #my post

[oflgtfol]

i think the whole discourse around whether or not cishet aro men are queer stems specifically from the idea of allo aros being hypersexual - and so the idea of an allo aro, specifically a straight aro man, draws to mind the idea of like, fuckboys, or sexist men who only view women as sex objects, etc. And that is likely why the idea of cishet aro men leaves such a bad taste in apparently so many peoples mouths

now, i’ve spoken before about how attraction =/= libido. i’ve mostly spoken about this in the context of being ace, where asexuals can still have a libido despite not experiencing sexual attraction. the confusion and conflation between attraction and behavior has been a huge source of frustration for me with regards to the popular idea of asexuality and how it has confused me on my path to figuring out my own sexual identity over the years

BUT. the idea holds true not only for aces who have high libidos - but also for allosexuals who have low libidos. the idea that to be allo aro is to immediately be some hypersexual fuckboy is just, so warped? just because you experience sexual attraction but not romantic attraction does not mean you immediately become some sexist pig who always needs your dick wet. like idk it’s just beyond fucking frustrating to see the way that people sexualize alloaros when they’re just - they’re just people. you would not assume what another person’s sex life or libido is if they were otherwise alloromantic allosexual, because your orientation describes the way you experience attraction, not your behavior and sex life, nor your libido. in the same way, being alloaro has literally nothing to do with what your actual libido is. so why are allo aros the exception? to try to divide the community and exclude them based on your assumption of their sex lives is just so fucked

#brot posts #aro tag #gonna get a bit TMI here. beware #i think im definitely acespec i dont know if im fully ace or not but im definitely acespec #and i dont care to define myself further than thst cuz its just gonna be frustrating for no reason #and the reason why i get so mad about the idea that aces inherently dont have sex #is that like - im acespec and i definitely have a libido of some kind #im still a virgin tho! like im not out here being some fuckboy #i just jerk off about it like jesus christ #like when you have this idea of alloaros in your head of being some hypersexual freaks with no boundaries and disrespectful of their #partners etc insert every fuckboy stereotype #its just - why are you assuming things about their sex lives and then deciding you dislike them based on your assumptions #1. how do you know theyre even having sex? all because theyre allosexual? #not all allosexuals have sex…? and not in a celibate way? #they could just jerk off about it and be perfectly content that way. same as me! #2. and even if they are having sex who give a shit? fwb exist you can easily have respectful consensual sex without romance #to assume otherwise is just…. #well dare i say it. its very sex negative. you have messed up ideas on sex if thats what you think

[linipikk]

I love this moment so much because Aziraphale knows that Crowley is the only one being who knows Aziraphale is able to lie and be wrong, and when Aziraphale asks for his trust, Crowley does just that.

It's stated time and time again that angels are trustworthy and are supposed to be good and righteous by the principle of being angels, but we know (and Aziraphale and Crowley know) that that's not how it works at all!l.

When Crowley trusts Aziraphale in a matter of pointing a gun to his head and pulling the trigger he does, not because they can do real magic or because Aziraphale is an angel and his word is inherently true (as it happens with Gabriel and Job's children). It is because Crowley has seen the good and the ugly in his angel, and he would still believe in Aziraphale even when the odds are against them.

They both know Crowley doesn't have to trust Aziraphale, and he still does 100%.

... And in 1942 Aziraphale is very aware of this. Oh, the joy of being known for who he truly is and still having his friend's trust and love even after everything that happened between them.

#good omens s2 #good omens #ineffable husbands #lini writes #I'm just...... i know they are showing us the trick i think this will be even more important #i love that they cant put things into words because of fear of their respective sides and still they have shared so much they just...know #thats why the ending is so difficult for us and crowley and dare i say aziraphale.

[uncanny-tranny]

Maybe it's just me, but part of why I never really felt completely secure in being public about my own artistic endeavors was how... being proud of yourself in any capacity for any reason is almost a faux pas, if that makes sense.

I've noticed how it's almost expected to perform the air of humility, but is that humility? Is it humility to say, "Oh, I'm sorry for clogging your feed with my awful art" or anything to the effect of self-deprecation?

I think that's why I so often gravitate toward those who make "bad art." There's a sense of freedom that is only achieved with the level of hubris that being unashamed in the number of people who hate your art. I wonder, though, how many people don't hate the art as much as they hate that they can't chastise the artist into humility, into recognizing how "terrible" an artist they "actually" are?

#art #i have clinical enough anxiety to not need people to expect self-deprecation from me when i do anything... #i always find it fascinating and almost freeing to see an artist make their own shit and be PROUD of that work #i unironically need to watch the room because that's the type of energy that i need so desperately #i do genuinely wonder if the largest critics of some of the 'worst' pieces of art do just tend to hate that the artist is openly prideful... #...that it isn't necessarily the art itself that completely enrages them but that they don't have the weapon of shame and humiliation... #...to put the artist 'back in their place' (the bottom)? #maybe i've been overanalyzing people's intention but i do wonder #i'm not saying you aren't allowed to dislike art (i dislike SO much art)... #...what i am saying is not all hatred of art is created equal and not all of it is something that is really as bad as it's portrayed #i need to emphasize that you are allowed to dislike art for whatever reason. there's some art i don't like for pretty petty reasons... #...but i don't think that requires me demanding artists to be ashamed and self-deprecate whenever they dare show their pieces #i think so many people are conditioned into self-hatred that anybody who shows any level of self-respect is off-putting though #like that's something i've really noticed a lot #and i think this is an aspect of the trend towards seeing self-hatred as neutral and even good

[snekdood]

Some of yall deeply underestimate how much some cis men are threatened by trans men and our masculinity. How theres so many cis dudes out there that want to rape us, thinking that will make us detransition. How many incels out there are mad at us for betraying womanhood and not sucking their dick. How much they want to force us to detransition, how much they want to kill us and force us into hiding which, to me, minus well be killing us since theyre smothering who we are for the sake of a status quo. We shake their fundamental understanding of the world. Its one thing for a GIRL to be a tomboy to them. They think its cute, like a baby pretending to be an adult. Its a whole other thing for someone percieved as a woman to try to actually be a man to them. They think thw fact we have the gal to assume we can escape their grasp, to escape the kitchen or whatever tf, means we're disrespecting them and trying to "destroy" them, rather than what it really is, us trying to be independent. We're the exact thing these types of cis men hate. Sometimes they tolerate (emphasis here bc im not saying they accept yall. Dont twist my words)trans women bc they fetishize them but they want to completely eradicate us becayse we threaten the patriarchy by virtue of deciding we dont need a man to take care of us, we want to be the man that takes care of ourselves.

#and bc ik how some of yall are on this site and how uncharitable you are let me be clear: just because they TOLERATE trans women/fems #sometimes. doesnt mean i think they actually respect you or see you as you. im not abot to say you somehow have it easier. they want to use #you and then dump your body somewhere. im well aware of that. but they *also* want to entirely entrap us and our identities and keep us #smothered with no escape. its why were seeing child marriage laws. its why were seeing anti abortion laws. its why we're seeing rights #stripped away from ppl wrongly percieved as women becayse theyre so threatened by us and how we think we can be on our own #that they have to try more extreme measures ro control us our bodies and self expression. its why candace owens goes on saying #'does women voting actually do any good for anyone??' #and no. entrapment isnt them somehow caring about us mlre than you. thats their alternative to killing us but its not an alternative bc it #fundamentally strips us of our rights and autonomy. and also. entrapping us and forcing us out of our gender. like i said. minus well be #killing us. its not likely we'll just get to run away free from these men if they get this type of power. its more likely they kill us for #even daring to betray them their values and words. #so how tf is anyone more privileged in this situation? in trans spaces? can we really fucking say someone has it worse rn. #is it really worth it to try to divide and weigh who has it worse. bc they want both os us dead for being who we are. #and its not like they dont offer yall an out to. its just their out is ALSO basically killing yourself bc they want you to conform to #cishet white manhood. #also it goes both ways. cis women are like this towards trans women. its the proximity effect. #where you get more upset with different people who are also more like you than other ppl #the difference i'd argue though is cis men- at least the ones in power- have more of an ability to remove us than cis women #like its easier for them to do.

[paunchsalazar]

this whole part...

this means Kaoru either has visited multiple times (individually?) and run into Akito OR when they go as a group Akito particularly gives him a disapproving look (gay) and asks him a lot of questions about Kyoya’s school life OR even if he talks to the whole group Kaoru feels they are targeted at him specifically and doesn’t like him

#he let kyoya sleep… #kaoru readily defending him is so funny to me.. kyoya is among Hunny and Mori as people he respects and can’t tease lol.. #he got a boo! hiss!! #and still teased him ofc.. #anyway they are the club gays among a group of gays #also kaoru thinks tamaki rubbed off on him dare I say can be even a little cool (embarrassing)… #they are all so cute #ouran highschool host club spoilers #ohshc #ohshc spoilers #kyoya ootori #kaoru hitachiin #kyokao #uploads

[obstinatecondolement]

Wish my parents would take the "not swearing at me and shouting about how they own the house I live in" challenge every time I push back mildly against them treating me like a literal child challenge.

#they're on the 'you can't lock your door' thing again #and once again using fire safety as a fig leaf for being mad about not being able to get into my room without me unlocking it #and I didn't even say no is the thing #I said that I didn't feel I had any other way of enforcing privacy as a boundary #and that I didn't think it was reasonable that I should be Disallowed from locking myself into a room on fire safety grounds #when they both do that all the time #so why is there one rule for them and one for me? #the answer you will be pleased to hear is #'do whatever you want then you selfish fucking bitch' #and 'I pay the rent!' #there is not rent #they own this house outright #and a second house which my sister lives in rent free #they don't give a shit about 'what if there is a fire?' #the problem is #'how dare you presume that you can lock part of my house away from me #and how dare you presume that you are a person with rights and not an extension of me I should be able to control at will?' #if fire safety is such a fucking risk then why can you lock yourself in a room to get away from 'the madness' but I'm not allowed? #also fwiw I never raised my voice or said anything harsher than 'I feel that I have no other way of having my privacy respected' #and 'I don't think that makes sense as a reason given that you lock yourself in rooms all the time and I don't see how that is different' #but anything other than unflinching obedience is verbal abuse time #like always #love that for me

[mx-metronome]

One of these days I’m gonna be brave enough to share my Sky spreadsheet on the official Discord server for over half a million users to see, but until that day comes, I wish the 6 or 7 of you here that use it a pleasant evening

#tempo tantrums #one time I got to see a similar spreadsheet that someone posted there #it only featured the base constellations #but it was GORGEOUS #photos and icons and they were all laid out to look like the spirit trees and #man it was a SIGHT #I was quite envious at first - always my first and biggest mistake #wow someone did this thing I’m very passionate about so much better than I did #and I felt that way for a little while #until some users lamented that the sheet was completely unusable on mobile #some friends pointed out that they preferred my spreadsheet because a) it was easy to see and understand #and b) it was actually usable on mobile #and I think about that a lot #dare I say I even cried about that afterward #every sheet a person makes has its role to play in the community #maybe in that respect my spreadsheet will be well received but idk

[kaltacore]

one super important detail about carver's 'pro-templar' stance is that he openly admits that he never saw magic as a threat before kirkwall. he can be petty and constantly annoyed by his siblings being all magical and special but he never thought of them as abominations who need to be locked up for everyone's safety. kirkwall is the reason he starts to express doubts and we know how fucked up the veil here is.

if he joins the order, he does that out of necessity but i'd say he's also that rare templar who's motivated not by fear for himself but by fear for the people he cares about and at least one of them is a mage. this city is full of demons and abominations and blood magic, situation here is a lot more complicated than in ferelden and there's also his not-so-almighty mage sibling who doesn't seem to be concerned about this. even though they can be killed by one of these things. even though they can become one of them.

also he desperately needs purpose and if he was never taken to the expedition he finds one and does so by his own choice. and for the moment he thinks it's the right thing to do but the order never helps him resolve his doubts. he's never proven wrong because there are still demons and abominations threating the city. he's never proven right because some things templars do are completely unjustifiable and straight up cruel. this is not the purpose he wanted. this is not the reason worth deeping the rift between him and his sibling even more than it already was but it's too late to quit just like that. it's not like he despised the templars. it's not like he didn't understand them completely. but the way he bitterly says "you don't understand this life. i didn't" to sebastian summarises how complicated his time in the order was all along

#honestly i wouldn't say that carver is a good templar. he's loyal to whoever he serves but that's just. his way of things #good templar fucking hates mages. it's not like i'm exaggerating tho. almost all templar characters who got major promotions in the games #were traumatized by some magic accident first and then were allowed to work with mages. while they were dreaming of massacring them #or they were just. willing to kill and torture people with no traumatizing background or whatever. even better #carver is just not like that. he thinks this is a respected promising job. he can see a point of it #and then we have these cut lines where cullen mentions templar!carver was threating anyone who dared to mention hawke. well #is he that pro-templar tho. or was he just raised among mages for all his life and was taught to believe that magic is a normal thing #but then got exposed to the whole city where mages were causing problems. a lot. and started to wonder if his family was just an exception #(yeah yeah mages were not in fact the root of a problem but we're talking about character's point of view here #and carver is a lot more concerned about his place in said family and the world and his relationships with his sibling #than the veil and stuff) #as a result we get a story about distancing yourself from the people you love for a cause that was not worth it #a cause you chose and regretted but some things cannot be undone and you have to live with it now #i don't usually go for this route but it is so tragic actually. hits almost as hard as warden bethany #carver hawke #dragon age

[justaholeinmysoul]

Empathy and sympathy for weird, different and weak people are decreasing so alarmingly tbh .

I can't believe that people freak out for some slur on a TV show and tits but let others post online the most ableist, eugenics and disgusting shit

#the amount of times i saw takes that are considered normal especially on reddit that are one step #away from nazi Germany if not that. and not in asshole communities mostly are in parents or dog lovers or good people subs #like i literally saw one person saying society should gas severe mentally ill people and others p much agreed #but don't u dare say shit like kpop idol x has an ugly haircut #or stuff like i am a new parent i want my kid to grow up have a respectable job and date only good girls to marry #not to be gay and crazy and fat and watch videogames or animes or be a weirdo #it makes me so sad ik it's online people but online a lot of folks say stuff that maybe can't say irl although they can still act out #cause laws and society protect their mentality a whole lot even if we pretend it doesn't #so idk are most people that awful really?or am i too sensitive?but i know the answer

[mintharasthrone]

saying how you have a lesbian girlfriend when you’re exposing yourself as a homophobic hateful incel at lesbians with no empathy for them isn’t a flex

“i can’t be homophobic my girlfriend is a lesbian”

#that relationship isn’t gonna last lmao #that lesbian deserves better #bi women will whine about men only being the problem when they bring all that behaviour and more to lesbians #you’re a woman and can’t even respect a lesbian women so shut the fuck up #women can’t be blamed for anything women aren’t oppressors how dare you hate and have anger towards other women #not like women can oppress women/s #i dare you to say that to woc dumbass

[angels-heap]

is that post abt the frenrey piss kink fic

I remember the mob of angry children who used to lose their minds and start slinging death threats every time someone published a kink fic (or any adult content), even if it was something niche but totally benign like this and it was correctly tagged, but no. It appears there are 11 frenrey piss kink fics (thanks for making me look that up) and it's been a long time since I've witnessed a shitfit about any of them, thank God.

Editing to add: But yes, anyone who thinks "the frenrey piss kink fic" was the worst thing about that fandom was probably instigating infinitely more harm than they claimed the fic was causing and I hope they have since grown up.

#asks #anon #look I don't go here but I respect people's right to write kink fics even if they do not appeal to me personally #if a bunch of kids decide to seek out properly tagged fic that they know they're not comfortable with so they can harass the authors #that's on them #I am also side-eyeing anon a little for suggesting that I meant 'benign and presumably earnest kinkfic' when I wrote 'gross-out troll fic' #god I really want to make a reading comprehension 'how dare you say we piss on the poor' joke now

[theghostofashton]

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#the genre of posts that's like 'stop being so demanding about people pronouncing foreign names our mouths can't move like that' is just so. #like i'm sorry but this is not a real problem #it truly is not a real problem that people are too mean about wanting their names pronounced correctly #as if that's been a demand forever and not something that's just becoming more of a thing as of the last few years #the default for decades has been putting up w anglicization even when we didn't want it or it butchered our languages #because that's easier and how dare we ask people to put in the effort #so now that people are pushing back and being like no this is how my name is pronounced we end up being told we're demanding #and we're all just assholes looking for ways to be mean to the poor english speakers who can't say them right #we can tell when you're trying and we can tell when you're not and the idea that the former is more common is literally ridiculous #the most regular occurrence for me is people pronouncing my name correctly at first and then suddenly anglicizing it for no reason #they have demonstrated that they can say it correctly. they just choose not to. #that is the default #not to mention poc not being able to pronounce english words correctly or not knowing how to pronounce them get way more shit lol #idk like i am never trying to be mean #i have so much respect for the people who try because most people do not #and it is so endlessly frustrating to see this framed as us being assholes when we're simply tired of putting up with this #sorry i saw a post that made me mad lol #delete later

[grapecaseschoices]

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it is probably cheesy af but i am always such a sucker for seeing moments where the combination of personality stats shine (especially when it is accompanied by the growth in team points/dynamics. the way i love making mason/morgan smile on non-bff & non-romance routes)

#oc: pierre lin #twc detective #ava du mortain #agent mason #pierre x felix pt #grapecase posts #twc book 3 #twc book 3 spoilers #the way i grin like a loon whenever mason (or even ava) are approving of pierre #bc they've come so far! #the growing respect #the growing appreciation in differences of approach #the growing - dare i say it? - fondness??! #felix hauville